Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Beattie, John C. 1948
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, September 17, 1948
John C. Beattie, former register of deeds, justice of the peace, and store 
owner, died at the home of his son, John Beattie, Jr., in Clarksville at 11 
o’clock Friday evening.  He was 88 years old.

Active in Ionia business circles for many years, Mr. Beattie retired in 1938.  
He owned what is now the Johnson shoe store on West Main street for about 17 
years, selling the store to Johnson in July, 1920.  Previous to that he served 
for two terms, from 1911 to 1914 as register of deeds and later was elected 
justice of the peace.  He served in that capacity for three years before 
retiring.

He was an insurance agent for the Modern Woodmen of America, and was a member 
of the First Baptist church and belonged to the Canton order of the Odd 
Fellows.

He was born in 1860 in Antrim county, Ireland, coming to the United States at 
the age of 12 years.  He resided in this county almost all his life except for 
ten years in Jefferson City, Mo.  He married Edith Allured of Ionia on 
Thanksgiving Day, 1882.  After her death in 1941 he made his home in 
Clarksville with his son, John Jr.

Surviving him are five children, Grace Elliot of Grand Rapids, Edith Deitz of 
Los Angeles, Calif., John Beattie of Clarksville, Alice Austin of Marion, O., 
and Nancy Sperry of St. Charles, Ill.; 15 grandchildren; and 16 great-
grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at the home of John Beattie, Jr., Clarksville, 
September 21, at 2 p.m.


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